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Anyone had problems with theirs? I'm going to get mine out tomorrow, all four of them. The two at the top are most troublesome - one has decayed pretty badly and the other is still in the gumline, facing the wrong way with the possibility of a cyst forming. Dentist told me the bottom two might as well get removed now as they'll cause problems in the future considering they're half embedded in the gumline. Gonna be under general for this one, so I'll probably be feeling a little loopy/drowsy tomorrow. First time I've had surgery since I was 2 or 3, so I'm a little nervous/excited.

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One of the weirdest feelings having your teeth pulled out - could hear it, you sort of imagine feeling it, and I was sure I was in for a world of pain when he yanked it out.

My wife had 5 taken out together like you and got put under - was a relatively good experience, no pain or swelling, back to normal in a couple of days.
 
My first was taken out by an Egyptian dentist at Maiduguri General Hospital in NE Nigeria. He was a big guy - think KPD, but 15 years and 30 kilos later. The hospital disposal pit was a few metres outside the window, which had no fly-wire. The crown of the tooth just disintegrated leaving the stump below the gumline. He was on top of me for (actually, I don't know how long) with his knee, and his whole weight, on my sternum levering the stump out with a mini-tyre iron.

My second went to another Egyptian dentist, in Perth. I was a little concerned that she mightn't be strong enough, but then those dentist forearms flexed right in front of me. It made me realize that a dentist-girlfriend might not be such a good idea - imagine the squirrel-grip if she got angry!
 
eagleskickass said:
No problems myself and I'll refrain from sharing my friends experience or else you'll pull out of the operation tomorrow :p
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Same here. Just get the drugs and get closed up good.

Anyone not have wisdom teeth? I don't, and a dentist told me we're evolving away from them and that I am therefore highly evolved. Lol @ you neanderthals ;)
 
I had all of mine taken out at once.

Make sure they give you the big plastic syringe because you'll need it to squirt salt water in the holes where the teeth once were. Especially after meals.

If you don't food will get stuck in there.
 
You did the right thing going under a general. I got mine done in the chair, 2 were impacted & let me just say it was not a great experience.

Apparently my teeth were extreemly hard to remove & made it all the more difficult.

Wont go into too much detail for you.
 
Thrawn said:
Anyone had problems with theirs? I'm going to get mine out tomorrow, all four of them. The two at the top are most troublesome - one has decayed pretty badly and the other is still in the gumline, facing the wrong way with the possibility of a cyst forming. Dentist told me the bottom two might as well get removed now
Share us your wisdom teeth stories.
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Pretty much my story- except in reverse, the bottom two were the problem ones. But they took out the top two anyway as well.

Oh and chuck in the fact I was due to fly out to the States in less than a week!!!!! Had it done the very next day after my dental check up and recovered just in time to fly out.

Wasnt too bad- alot of pain, but hardly any swelling or blood. Couldnt eat any solids for about 4 days after the op.
 
nicky said:
I had all of mine taken out at once.

Make sure they give you the big plastic syringe because you'll need it to squirt salt water in the holes where the teeth once were. Especially after meals.

If you don't food will get stuck in there.
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Lol, yeah I remember using one of them.

Crimson Azure said:
You did the right thing going under a general. I got mine done in the chair, 2 were impacted & let me just say it was not a great experience.

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The dental receptionist came back in, said she found a surgeon willing to do it on such short notice, but under a local.

I said, keep ringing around!!!!! ;):thumbsu:
 

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ep2006 said:
You wont be able to chew for a week. Swelling is a bitch. :(
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See I didnt have this problem. I had all 4 of mine taken out about 2.5 years ago. Swelling went down within a couple of days. Granted, I couldn't eat anything substantial for the next week but I was surprised at how quickly the swelling subsided given my mates told me to expect anything from 1-3 weeks.
 
Had all four taken out when I was 17/18 in the early nineties under general anesthetic.

In the lead up my mates where winding me up saying "You know the guy doing it doesn't have the word "Doctor" in front of his name" (which he didn't BTW :eek: ) or "you'll have shoe marks on your face because the person doing it will be standing on you to get a good grip to rip your teeth out". Thanks lads!

For me the worst part was waking up, it was very painful and disorientating, plus swallowing, as mentioned previously, is not pleasant. The first day as a whole is difficult but things improve dramatically after that as the inside of the mouth/tongue are the fastest healing parts of the body. The swelling probably took a good 4-5 days to completely go away after that.

One word of advice though, resist the urge to move the bottom half of your jaw from side to side as blood doesn't taste nice.
 
Had all four of mine taken out. The bottom two were the worst ones, they were basically growing sideways into my other teeth and were getting quite painful.

Had it done under a local and wished I'd had it done under general. It wasn't particularly painful but having a dentist wrenching teeth out of your jaw and all the blood that goes with it certainly isn't a pleasant experience.

Was a bit sore afterwards and felt like the Elephant man with all the swelling but was pretty much right after 3 or 4 days.
 
Got all four of mine done under general. They were impacted but not badly - nipped it in the bud early.

All quite straightforward really. Took a week off work, but was relatively fine after a few days. The worst part was reading the literature beforehand that tells you about the possible worst-case complications from the surgery/anaesthesia.
 
got all four out a few years back. i don't think anything was actually wrong with the way they were growing, the dentist just suggested i have them removed. none of them had actually surfaced, so they were all cut out.

the general anaesthetic felt pretty good. all i remember was chatting to them and waking up on the bed after it was all done.

i got up fine, told the nurse i'm ready to go. had to take a piss before i left and i was on my way.

i had no swelling whatsoever, but some sharp pain under my tongue when i opened my mouth too wide.

all the pain subsided in about 3-4 days.

looks like i was one of the lucky ones going on what's happened to some of my mates.
 

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Will also say with mine, they were starting to make my teeth a bit ****ed, I just thought it was a normal toothache but it was pretty serious and had to get mine scheduled to get out a couple days later. Mine got taken out a lot later than I should have. Typical from me though, very stupid.
 
Got mine out under a local and I'm glad I did it that way. We are required to have them taken out for work and it is the Dentists call as to whether they are taken out in the chair or the hospital. In the chair they are a bit more careful because you are awake and have to sit through it. When under a general they are a bit less careful and a but more butcher like. You will have a much sorer jaw, larger holes if you get it out under General
 
darcytiger said:
Got mine out under a local and I'm glad I did it that way. We are required to have them taken out for work and it is the Dentists call as to whether they are taken out in the chair or the hospital. In the chair they are a bit more careful because you are awake and have to sit through it. When under a general they are a bit less careful and a but more butcher like. You will have a much sorer jaw, larger holes if you get it out under General
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Mine was a (relatively) good experience, it happened almost 12 months ago. The dentist detected early signs of decay in the bottom ones through X-rays and told me "you can either get them out now or in a few years time when there's a good chance the rot will have started".

All 4 wisdom teeth had grown out straight so it was supposedly a relatively easy job. Booked 2 appointments, one for each side of the mouth so I could still eat on the other side during recovery. The first one went pretty well, into the chair, a few injections of local into the gum and you couldn't feel a thing. The top one involved a fair bit of to-and-fro as the dentist tried to yank the tooth out, felt weird but no pain at all due to the local. The bottom one was a little more difficult (it later turned out that the root was crooked and in such a way that it wasn't detectable on the X-ray) so they eventually had to 'crack' the tooth into a few pieces before it was fully extracted.

A lot of blood afterwards, and I had to hold in place some cotton gauze on the empty cavity. I was not allowed to rinse with water as that would encourage more bleeding and I was not allowed to lie down either. That was annoying but bearable, the local was still effective so watched some TV and just relaxed. However as the local started to wear off after about 3 hours, the pain became really excruciating! Thank god for the painkiller (Forte) - I had never taken one before so I had no idea of its effectiveness but thank god it was wonderful.

The dentist had warned me that the pain and swelling might last for up to 24 hours but after the first lot of painkillers wore off I didn't have any more pain and I even ate steak for dinner the night after quite comfortably.

3 weeks later, go in to complete the other side. For some stupid reason I decided to feel with my tongue the area of the gum where the dentist had applied some anaesthetic and this made my tongue go completely numb. As with the first occasion, the top one came off with a bit of pulling, but the bottom was a nightmare. Due to another crooked and deep seated root, the tooth wouldn't budge through pure physical extraction. The dentist tried to crack it but this didn't help much. So eventually (and you could visibly see him get more and more frustrated) he decided to get the saw and cut the tooth into 3 pieces. There was no pain due to the local again but god damn it is a weird and somewhat frightening experience having some one use a saw inside your mouth and he was pushing down with quite a lot of force.

The recovery was similar to the first time (i.e. only needed one lot of painkillers). However a few weeks later, the gum where the bottom right tooth used to be swelled to a gigantic ball! Turns out the dentist had left a tiny fragment of tooth inside the gum and this was causing an infection of my gum. Had to go in again and had them make an incision to scrape the tooth and the pus out of it. I wasn't too happy about that.
 
Thuggee_Cult said:
"You know the guy doing it doesn't have the word "Doctor" in front of his name" (which he didn't BTW :eek: )
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Its a holdover from Britain (and in turn from medieval Europe when surgeons were not doctors but were barbers). AFAIK only the only 2 states that still call surgeons Mr/Ms/Mrs because of that convention are Victoria and Tasmania.

You've just got to hope that they have the right mix of letters after their name :p
 

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